Porhászka László: The Danube Promenade - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

ing separating the tram line from the promenade near Vigadó tér. The Little Princess soon became a favourite with tourists and an emblem of the promenade itself, its image appearing on the cover of several guide books. (A life-size replica of the statue has been the pride of a pleasant square by the Mill Pond of the resort town Tapolca since 1990, while a bronze scale model made in 1972 can be found in the collection of the Hungarian National Gallery.) Another sign of the statue’s popularity is that Péter István Németh has even written a poem to it:

“May you live to hold in times as yet untold to brows creased up in many a woeful fold your pert crowns truest gold!”

In May 1990 the Danube promenade was visited by another Prince of Wales. In an episode of their four-day visit to Budapest, heir apparent Charles and Princess Diana

The demolition

of the Soviet monument on Vigadó tér

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